PRE-MARITAL COUNSELLING IN A MULTICULTURAL SOCIETY

Pre-marital counselling in a multicultural society is a toolkit for Premarital Counsellors Marital and Family Counsellors and Pastoral and Christian counsellors serving in a multicultural society. It is a resource toolkit that contains questionnaires assessment instruments and insights for couple’s marital skill building. It is a repertoire of knowledge that equips counsellors as they confer on persons in their life destiny on the marriage covenant. It helps the counsellor to equip persons aspiring into the marriage covenant skills that enable them to identify their situations settings experiences aspirations and goals in life which may bear on their life together after marriage. It seeks to equip potential couples with preventative skills in dealing with potential marital hurts and as a channel of Gods healing and liberation through Christ Jesus.Chapter One: presents the background to the study. It enlists the vision and concerns antecedent to the publication of the book. This section introduces the reader to the roots of the author’s interest in bringing about a resource book and toolkit for marriage counsellors and potential husbands and wives living in a multicultural society. It looks at marriage as a covenant rather than as contract and presents the Divine formula for marriage. It explores the need for complementarity of the spouses looks at how Christian men and women fall for bad spouses defines premarital counselling and enumerates its advantages over other therapies.Chapter Two: focuses on the family and how each member relates to the institution and their combined contributions to the functioning of the family as an organism. It lists the various family types in westernized societies and explores the dynamics of their workings.Chapter Three: presents the theoretical and philosophical horizons of understanding that inform marriage and family. Here the author excursed into the nature of man archetypal configurations therapy and intervention human genealogy and relatedness consanguinity incest inbreeding and the implications and applications of these in pre-marital counselling as they interact with Christian biblical and secular ordinances and regulations that shape the marriage institutions of nations.Chapter Four: focuses on premarital questionnaires and other instruments that counsellors could use in premarital and family therapy. It also explores the activities that take place during the counselling sessions which equips couples with marital skills.Chapter Five: enlists skills tips and essays drawn from experiences in daily living that are useful insights for counsellors and couples aspiring to get married and married couples as well. Chapter Six: incurs into some psycho-spiritual considerations. It explores possible origins of marital maladjustments possible stressors and behaviors and habits that cause marital problems and couple’s motifs which are antecedents to relational ill health. It also explores the dynamics in courting and fiancé relating Chapter Seven: presents Live-Related case studies as instruments that can be used in premarital preparation classes Counsellor training in drama and skits in counselor trainee practicum in premarital and marital counselling sessions and in marital education as well. At the end of chapter seven the author presents a summary challenge and conclusions.This book is a toolkit; a resource manual envisioned to serve as a tool for marital and pre-marital counsellors. It is also of direct utility to couples aspiring to get married and those that are already married in en-skilling their life together to achieve a dynamic homeostasis. KEYWORDS: Pre-marital Counselling Multicultural Marriage Covenant Husband Wife spouse Matrimony Family love courtship Homeostasis Christian consanguinity relatedness genealogy religion spirituality intervention Therapy.